Author Archive: Retro

A church vicar tries a variety of schemes to come up with 1000 pounds to fix the church’s crooked steeple. When all his plans fail, he decides to bet his savings on a horse running at a local race track.

Classic 1930’s spy story.

Major Robert Rogers organized “Rogers Rangers” to search for the alleged waterway across the United States during the French and Indian War (1754-1759). Helping Rogers, an experienced explorer and Indian fighter, were Hunk Marriner, another experienced Indian fighter, and Langdon Towne, a Harvard graduate who was the map maker. The episodes told the story of their trials and tribulations searching for the Northwest Passage and their battles with both the French and Indians during this war.

Two African adventurers are pitted against one another in a hunt for a fortune in ivory. Produced by Armand Schaefer. Dir. Andrew L. Stone

Mild-mannered milkman becomes a champion boxer when he accidentally knocks out a prizefighter. Dir. Leo McCarey.

Drummond save his fiance from the clutches of desperate kidnappers.

A college professor in England searches for and finds his biological mother and learns that his real father was hanged for murder.